It's just so exciting!!

So today marked one week of Makayla not having a single accident while potty training. So as a reward I took her to McDonalds to play at their play place. She got so excited she peed her pants. Go figure!

I think I need my head examined!!

Being 30 weeks pregnant I don't really need a lot of stress in my life but that doesn't stop me. I am a full time mom who works two jobs, has an 8 week old puppy we are trying to house break, a 6 week old kitty that loves to prevent me from geting any sleep, in-laws that are constantly trying to be apart of every waking second in my life and a husband that works 12 hour shifts five days a week. The icing on the cake has to be my little Makayla! She has decided that she wants to be a big girl like her sister and go potty in the toilet. While I am grateful for the fact that she is so interested in it I just don't have the time or the energy to do such! Nevertheless here we are. Today would be day seven and still going strong. I am happy to admit that she is still very interested and is taking to it very well!! Out of six days we have only had one accident. I am very excited about the prospect of not having to change another diaper until little no name little boy here arrives!! I must admit though I think it was time anyway. When a child can get a diaper and lay on the floor saying "I'm wet! Change me!!" they are more than big enough to be potty trained!! Wish us luck!

Welcome to the Family

Once upon a time before Thanksgiving we had three wonderful cats, Smokey, Tiger, and Big Mama Kitty. Big Mama ran away because of a little annyoing boy that I am thankful is no longer in my life and we were down to two. After Makayla's birthday in the middle of January my co-worker was getting rid of puppies and we decided to give one a nice home. So we were back to three animals, Smokey, Tiger and Walle. Smokey and Tiger are in door and outdoor cats and love to be daring by attacking dogs and chasing cars. Well about ten days ago I was at work when I got a phone call from my husband that Smokey had been brutally attacked and I needed to take him to the animal hospital. I got him to the pet hospital as quickly as I could and there was nothing I could do for him. We had to put him to sleep. I cried for three days and ate an entire cheesecake by myself. By Saturday I had stopped crying enough that Craig, being the sweet guy that he is, decided to try to cheer me up and brought me home another kitty. The girls decided to name him Diego. He is cute but very active!!! He will never replace my Smokey but he makes Leah and Makayla very happy!

Happy 2nd Birthday Makayla!!!!

It's true! She is now 2! As Craig would say she is no longer our baby girl but a big girl now!! We didn't do anything super special for her birthday since it was too stinking cold outside but we did go to Build a Bear where she picked out a Hello Kitty that she had been wanting since before Christmas. Afterward we did pizza and cake with the cousins. Her favorite part of the day was getting her Hannah Montana Microphone that had lipgloss in it! She will put the mic up to your cheek and make you sing Hannah Montana and if you don't know anything by her then you are in a world of trouble!! Just ask her Grandma Thompson!!

Who doesn't love getting stinky from leaves?

If my girls had their way they would have spent all day in those stinky leaves! Yuck but CUTE!

Kitties and Cookies

So in honor of Big Mama Leah and I would play kitties and would talk like kitties. Well the day before Thanksgiving we decided that we wanted to make cookies and there you have it. I cute little kitty face making cookies!

Farewell Big Mama!!

So it's around Thanksgiving now and I had been watching this little boy for a member in the ward for a few weeks because they needed some help part time. He may have been a cute kid but was very much a little terror when his parents were not around. He had hit Leah over the head with a tree branch in our back yard, pushed Makayla down our stairs and and had given him a bloody nose. He has never had to share before and has no idea of how to interact with others. So one day all of us were playing in the back yard when I had to come inside for no more than two minutes to get my phone from upstairs. When I came back downstairs I see my girls playing ponies on the floor in the livingroom. I ask "Where's Alex?" Leah replies he's outside. What I didn't mention is that he is animal crazy and we have three cats two of which are outdoor/indoor and the other is indoor only. So I run out back to make sure he is okay and he is not there. I don't have a very large yard so it's hard to loose someone back there. I FREAKED (normal reaction). I start running around the house screaming his name and checking all of his hiding places inside and out. My girls are running around after me screaming Alex! Alex! I come downstairs to call his mother when I hear a very soft knocking at my front door. It was Alex. He had climbed over my fence chasing one of my cats. So after that his outside privileges were taken away at my house. So a week has passed and he comes over again. He knows he is not allowed outside and it's his favorite place in my house! To make his life worse my kitties will not come inside and Big Mama (our third cat) is hiding from him under our bed. Well somehow he tried to get a hold of her and she went running. Well sometime I had my back turned on this kid and he's trying to open my back door. He can't open it wide enough for him but enough for Big Mama to get out and she did. She ran and has never came back. We looked everywhere for her but to this day she is still gone. We will miss you Big Mama!!

Too cute to spook!

Okay so I know that Halloween was like forever ago but I feel that if I don't catch up I will never be able to! So this past Halloween we had two beautiful little Disney characters, Tinker Bell and Minnie Mouse. Makayla as Minnie was a no brainer since she is her all time favorite thing and Leah after watching the Tinker Bell movie after it came out the week before decided she had to be Tink!! My most favorite part of this holiday, the fact that we spent the entire night without any of my in-laws. Now I know that it sounds bad but I didn't have extended family around for everything when I was growing up and I would like to be able to be more independent when it comes to holidays and such. It's fine to do some things and spend some time but not let them consume the whole day! Anyway, we went to our ward Halloween party which was the first time I had been to one outside since my Casa Grande days. This girls really weren't that into it so we decided to do the door to door thing in our neighborhood and it was wonderful! Leah was determined not to come home until her pumpkin was filled to the top with candy! Whenever she wasn't looking we would sneak some of Makayla's candy into Leah's pumpkin just so we could end a little earlier. We still have candy to this day!

Life this past fall

So I realize that I am not the best at keeping anyone in the loop especially since our loved ones live no where near us but in an attempt this is our life in the past four months: birthdays, school, family vacations, holidays, and every day sillyness. Enjoy!

So Leah started preschool, which after two months I did not feel it was doing anything but waisting money every week. She had fun doing crafts but didn't learn anything she didn't already learn here at home. She is very excited to start kindergarden this year!!

The first week of October we took the whole family to California to help clean out Grandma and Grandpa Thompson's house to get it ready to sell. Well no trip to Cali is complete without a trip to DISNEYLAND!!!!!!! This was Leah's second time and Makayla's first time. They had so much fun. Makayla was my little buddy since I could not go on any major ride since I am 13 weeks preganant and that was just fine with me! Leah's favorite part was the Matterhorn (which she still talks about to this day) and Makayla's was meeting Minnie Mouse!!

High School Musical 3 premier. Need I say more?!?! I think Leah was the only 4 year old there but we had fun!! She knows all the songs to all three movies. It's hilarious!!

It's raining! It's pouring! So Leah got her beloved Hannah Montana umbrella for her birthday but being lovely New Mexico we hadn't seen any rain in months. So the first time we had any sort of rain she grabbed her umbrella and ran to the back yard to play in it!!

A day at the park. One fine October day daddy had a day off during the week (which was a rarity) we deceided to have a picnic at the park and play! They loved swinging in the baby swings which was probably because daddy would push them as high as they wanted to go and I wouldn't freak out about them flying out!